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Brown Residence Hall

Brown Hall is the oldest active dormitory on campus.

Brown Residence Hall is the oldest active dormitory on campus, and is also the smallest. It is part of the Freshman Experience Program and offers traditional two-person dorm rooms with shared hall bathrooms to incoming freshman students. It is located on the corner of North Avenue and Techwood Drive and has a great view of Bobby Dodd Stadium.

Julius Brown was born in 1848 in Canton, Georgia. He was an Atlanta attorney, co-incorporator of the Metropolitan Street Railroad, and brother of a Georgia governor. Brown left two-thirds of his estate to Georgia Tech and thus Georgia Tech named its first ever endowned chair after Brown in 1910. The chair was later divided to create to Julius L. Brown Chairs, one in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and another in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.